The WSJ ponders why the gas price hasn’t fallen further – though it has continued to drop.

Motley Fool highlights how volatile energy stocks have been on the oil price rout, but writes that Peabody Energy, Baytex Energy and Aegean Marine Petroleum stocks have been moving for different reasons.

3) Arctic: Tensions between climate and Arctic drilling, says US government official

A senior official at the State Department has admitted there is an “obvious tension” between the US’s commitment to combat climate change and its approval of Shell’s oil drilling in the Arctic, the Guardian’s Oliver Milman writes.

WSJ reports on the solar boom in Texas, with $1 billion of solar investments lined up in a state where there are no solar subsidies. In Colorado the largest solar farm (450,000 panels across 900 acres) east of the Rockies has broken ground, according to Fortune.